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Born into a family of writers, Stephen Crane wrote his first poem, I'd Rather Have when he was eight, and his first short story, Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle, at around the age of 13.

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In the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time.

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An introduction to the Nobel-Prize-winning author's life and work, this book devotes opening chapters to his biography and literary heritage and subsequent chapters to each of his major works.

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A study of Zora Neale Hurston, examining her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance as well as her role as mediator between the black and white worlds in which she lived. A full chapter is devoted to analyzing each of Hurston's major works of fiction and biographical facts are included.

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This work undertakes an empirical test of stereotypical notions about women's and men's 19th-century fiction, utilising the computer to examine 80,000 of text from passages randomly chosen in 20 novels each by women and men. This material has also been compared with 20th-century fiction.

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With the aid of new analytic techniques, including the computer, Karl Kroeber examines the fictional styles of three consecutive English novelists, presenting an objective and systematic comparison of the stylistic coherence of their work. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to aga

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Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time.

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One of the most innovative examples of the use of fantastic forms in feminist fiction can be found in the work of Irmtraud Morgner. This book looks at the way Morgner uses fantasy both as a feminist critique of the history of patriarchy, and as a test of the viability of feminist alternatives.

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The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Susan Hill.

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Take Five brings together all of Kenneth McClane's poetry published since 1971, and reissues, for the first time, the privately-printed Running Before the Wind, his first collection of verse.

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This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre. Aspects of the play discussed include its response to 'Machiavellian' ideas and the degree to which its sensational violence can provoke laughter from the audience.

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This book is a study of Burrough's first six Tarzan books, revealing intriguing parallels between Tarzan's story and the sagas of the heroes of ancient Greece and Rome.

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For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read his novels in university, college, and high school classes continue to struggle to make sense of his convoluted plots, prolix style, and complex characterizations.

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Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content Innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, and new interpretations give readers an opportunity to engage with and reimagine the novel.

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Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it.

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The first transatlantic critical study to look at the role of media, terrorism and literature in DeLillo's fiction.